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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 26

1 8 8 8 1 8 8 1 8 8 1 I Ile 3 8 J 8 9 6 8 8 8 8 I 8 1 The inside story 1 0 1 L You see her every day and you probably take her for granted. She'$ one of 3 many_a typical II,OOO-ton refrigerated cargo ship of one of the Overseas Lines and a good example of the ships that form the back-bone of the service. 1 J But let'$ take the lid off her and have a closer look: 8 8 8 FROM STEM TO STERN, she measures 560 ft. Put her down in Christchurch and 3 1 8 3 she'd stretch across Cathedral Square: 8 HER ENGINES develop 12,800 bh-p. Set to work in a power station, they'd 1 1 8 7 I 1 produce enough electricity and power for a city the size of Timaru. 1 1 IN A SINGLE TRIP (London-Auckland) she uses 1,350 tons of oil. That'$ enough, 1 in terms of petrol, to give you IO million miles of motoring S or, if you prefer it, to take you from Auckland to Wellington every day of the week for the next 0 h 2 sixty-five years. 8 1 7,000 TONS OF STEEL were used in her construction that's more steel than they're using in the construction of Auckland Harbour Bridge. TO PROTECT THE STEEL from corrosion; her builders used 40 tons of paint: With 1 that quantity, you could paint 1,500 houses. 8 0 1 SHE HAS 522,000 cu. ft: of refrigerated cargo space not only for frozen and 1 chilled meat, but also for butter, cheese; apples; pears and deep-frozen 8 9 8 8 8 1 vegetables. That'$ big enough to take 35,000 ewes and 200,000 lambs your 8 8 whole farm and many of your neighbours in a single ship: 1 8 HER TOTAL CARGO CAPACITY is 775,000 cu. ft. which would completely fill the 1 Wellington Town Hall from floor to ceiling one-and-a-half times. There she is 8 1 your good and faithful servant; and before she sails away, let' $ look at one 3 8 8 more figure. To build, this ship cost over K2f million, which is about 0 8 0 five-and-a-half times as much as she would have cost before the war. Her useful 9 2 life is still only about 25 years and who knows what will be the cost of 1 08 L 3 replacement in 1982 ? But; whatever the amount, it must somehow or other be 5 set aside by the Lines out of the earnings during the short life of the ship: The task becomes no easier with the passing of time. But; easy or difficult; it 3 8 8 must be done; always, as a ship cornes to the end of its useful life, another must be ready to g0 into service into your service. 0 8 2 Issued in the interests of mutual understanding by 1 K 8 8 J NEW ZEALAND l 8 8 8 1 OVERSEAS 6 0 SHIPPING LINES SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO: LTD THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO: LTD PORT LINE LIMITED BLUE STAR LINE LIMITED